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The Black Tower - Temple of Nazar

OK, seems I'm on a bit of temple kick here lately. I like how this one is coming along.

Nāzar is the God of Strategy, Tactics, Naval Warfare, etc. he is also the patron deity of a race called the Kaardon (picture cross between Klingons & Acroyears) and has recently "stolen" the worship of Hobgoblins away from another deity.

The black circles on either side of the main building are the upper levels above where the altar is located.

The 'chessboard' is a magical artifact used to play a game that is a cross between Chess, Holographic Chess from Star Wars and the video game Archon.

Still quite a bit of work to do and I'm sure there are things that need tweaking.

So as always, take a look and let me know what you think.

UPDATE: Finally able to upload, need to pay better attention to total number of pixels *smacks own forehead* The image quality is not very good at this point.

If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)

I've added a small smithy to the temple grounds, after all Nazar is a militant deity.

I've also added a low-opacity layer that shows a hint of where the upper levels would be, it casts a bit of a shadow on the game board but otherwise you wouldn't be able to see it at all.

I can supply a version with a hex grid if anyone is interested.

Great image! You should think about making a large bellows for the fireplace in the smithy. That little thing you have on the table ain't going to do nothing for helping stoke that fire place....heh...